Backward compatibility ???? In *all* platforms.
It used to be an IBM point of pride that you could still run 30 year old code on their latest boxen.
Certainly up to XP, MS made a similar boast with Windows.
Fair enough, you wouldn't expect XP to be able to handle 2002 hardware onwards. Hence Vista/7. But you'd expect it to run something for Win95 - or even Win3.1/3.11.
So how come the phone OS market turned that on it's head, and lead to a situation where it's almost expected that the latest version of an OS will break older apps ? Which strongly suggests an unstable or infant platform. Not something the corporates are going to look to.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
